03-21-2020, 03:35 AM
(03-21-2020, 12:08 AM)CarolinaBengalFanGuy Wrote: I have heard a lot of people saying shop at local markets. Walmart, Bi-Lo, Ingles are all packed and empty. Chinese markets are full of stock and no one there.
Also heard go to Home Depot to get your toilet paper lol
My wife shops fairly regularly in Asian grocery stores in the area even before the virus. When the big box stores were wiped out she knew where to go to find a lot of everyday items. We're well stocked in dried beans of all kinds, rice and other items. While I'm not a huge fan of dried beans on a daily basis I certainly wouldn't say some stupid sh*t like, "I'd rather starve to death instead of eating (insert your least favorite bean).." Fact is before I'd starve to death I'd be perfectly content to eat the neighbors cat and dog if push came to shove. I also purchased a bunch of flour sack rags at Walmart awhile back so if toilet paper becomes extinct for all intents and purposes I can quickly use and reuse flour sack rags in lieu of toilet paper. It might not be fun to wash them, but they're still washable and reusable in the same way cloth diapers were washed and reused before disposable diapers..My kids grew up with cloth diapers.. Toilet paper? Not so much..
By the way, this is the perfect time to go picking dandelion greens and other greens before they become tough and bitter. Get em early in the spring before the hoards are out stealing your yard.. LOL Maple tree leaves when they're fresh and tender are edible as are other leaves Maple seed pods in the early fall are also edible... Another one you can eat is the leaves of beech trees before they get tough..I live to far south for those leaves, but they do grow up in Ohio and other northern states about this time of the year. There's still nut trees in most areas come late fall..Those big, black walnuts are nice and tasty and up north there are always tons of mulberries and they also make a wicked wine if you're so inclined.. I made mulberry wine a few years back and my grandkids even got on a nice buzz from it..and real quick,,No need to individually pick mulberries. Just lay a big sheet of plastic under the branches and shake them hard. You can get a 5 gallon bucket of mulberries in no time at all...3-4 minutes of tree shaking can yield plenty of berries., but you might want to pick out the sticks and bugs afterwards..The bugs have protein, but probably not to tasty..
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.